31st May 2014
I was up earlier this morning at about 6:30am as I was doing my Swim at Budworthmere this morning and was about 35 mile away from Wallasey. The Budworthmere Swim is small lake which is a Mile round and located in the Beautiful Countryside of Cheshire. The Briefing was at 8:30am and others swimmers could see I was getting excited about the swim. The swim itself for me was a Disaster, I didn't feel mentally well for the swim and also my Goggles kept fogging up and I was knocking into other swimmers which was not good. When Open Water Swimming the slightest thing that comes into your head while swimming can totally unbalance your swim. I think it is too with the Nervous System as the Brain is concentrating on the Swim Stroke, Leg Kick, side way roatation of the Neck, Breathing in Water, as well as the Heart Cycle going through different patterns. So when my mind starts drifting off to other things then my Swimming becomes very laboured and I lose the Speed of which I am swimming at. In the afternoon I found out that the Balloon flight that I had booked for this afternoon had been cancelled due to wind speed. I received an email this afternoon telling me that the Biggest Viking Long Ship is coming to Wallasey Dock in July 2014 and I hopefully might get the chance to row the Viking Longship which would be quite an Honour and a Great Acheievment for 2014.
I was up earlier this morning at about 6:30am as I was doing my Swim at Budworthmere this morning and was about 35 mile away from Wallasey. The Budworthmere Swim is small lake which is a Mile round and located in the Beautiful Countryside of Cheshire. The Briefing was at 8:30am and others swimmers could see I was getting excited about the swim. The swim itself for me was a Disaster, I didn't feel mentally well for the swim and also my Goggles kept fogging up and I was knocking into other swimmers which was not good. When Open Water Swimming the slightest thing that comes into your head while swimming can totally unbalance your swim. I think it is too with the Nervous System as the Brain is concentrating on the Swim Stroke, Leg Kick, side way roatation of the Neck, Breathing in Water, as well as the Heart Cycle going through different patterns. So when my mind starts drifting off to other things then my Swimming becomes very laboured and I lose the Speed of which I am swimming at. In the afternoon I found out that the Balloon flight that I had booked for this afternoon had been cancelled due to wind speed. I received an email this afternoon telling me that the Biggest Viking Long Ship is coming to Wallasey Dock in July 2014 and I hopefully might get the chance to row the Viking Longship which would be quite an Honour and a Great Acheievment for 2014.
